Faculty + Staff

Elizabeth Moeller, assistant dean of career services at UCLA School of Law, has been elected to serve as the 2014-2016 vice president of Member Services and Education for the National Association for Law Placement.

The Getty Foundation recently announced grants totaling $685,000 to UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, Fowler Museum, Hammer Museum, and Film and Television Archive to cover research, planning for 'Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA' in 2017. 

Join the Fowler Museum at UCLA and Charlene Villaseñor Black, associate professor of art history and Chicano/a studies at UCLA. for a discussion of saints on June 4 at 12 p.m.

UCLA Athletics Director Dan Guerrero has been selected as one of four Football Bowl Subdivision winners of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award for 2013-14.

Taylor Bazley, a UCLA senior, grew up in a poor neighborhood in San Diego. So when he was admitted to UCLA, Bazley knew it would change his life.

A sunset meditation session on Thursday, June 5 at UCLA's Fowler Museum will include an introduction to mindfulness, silent meditation and world music.

UCLA faculty and staff are invited to an info session on the Anderson School's Fully Employed Masters of Business Administration (FEMBA) program on May 29.

Learn about opportunities at UCLA for staff members to get the skills they need to advance their careers in 'Making yourself more marketable,' a free workshop on Tuesday, June 17, noon- p.m. at Royce Hall, Room 314.

University of California faculty, staff and their family members can receive a 33 percent discount on 10 UC Online Education summer session courses.

Amy Rowat, an assistant professor in UCLA's Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, believes food can be a powerful way to communicate science to a broad audience.

Roll with your fellow Bruins on a bike train to campus from Culver City or Koreatown on Thursday, May 15, part of UCLA Bike Week sponsored by UCLA Transportation.

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

An exhibition of the work of MFA students in UCLA Media Arts opens on May 15 and runs through May 29 at the New Wight Gallery.

The University of California proposes to renew the Employee-initiated Reduction In Time (ERIT) Program for a three-year period. Employee comments are invited by May 30.

Peter Taylor, former UC chief financial officer, will present 'UC’s Financial Challenges and the Systemwide Response' as part of UCLA’s Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center’s series of 45th Anniversary Celebration lectures.

UCLA education professor emeritus John Hawkins has been appointed a Distinguished International Professor at East China Normal University.

A guest house designed by Steven Christensen, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, was selected by the American Institute of Architects for its Emerging Professionals Exhibition in Washington, D.C.

UCLA professor of history Mary Terrall has published a new book, 'Catching Nature in the Act.'

Michael Lens, assistant professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has received awards from both the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate for his research in housing policy.

Patricia Gándara, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, has been selected as the 2014 Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University’s School of Education.

Sandra Harding, UCLA professor of education and gender studies, has been honored with the 2013 John Desmond Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton will be at UCLA on Thursday, May 22 as part of the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies' 'Images in Blackness' film series.

UCLA professor Fernando Torres-Gil has been named to the California Social Work Hall of Distinction by the California Social Welfare Archives.

Penelope (Penny) Hein-Unruh, UCLA associate vice chancellor for academic advising in the College of Letters and Science, died May 8 in her home in Los Angeles.

UCLA professor of physics and astronomy Ni Ni has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.